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...Pacific Northwest. Gold was discovered in Idaho's Boise Basin in 1862. Some 8,000 miners, mostly of European origin, rushed in. By 1870, Chinese miners were staking claims or purchasing or leasing them. In 1881 Hop Lee, of the Hong Lee Tong, signed a lease for a placer claim at the junction of Mores and Granite creeks. It is this site, opened in 1995 (with Simon's participation), to which the Tuckers are returning next month to take up shovels, trowels, whisk brooms and sifting screens...
Passport in Time, 800-281-9176. Excavations at the Hong Lee Placer Claim are closed...
Laura Cattizera of Princeton took first place, running 17:14.7 for the five-kilometer course. Harvard's first placer was Julie Grialou, with a time of 18:02.4. Tina Lount, Lise Vansen, and Jody Dushay all finished within 40 seconds of Grialou...
...gold miners, though, have run into strong opposition from environmentalists, especially in California's storied motherlode country near Sonora and in the northern foothills around Clear Lake. Property owners and politicians have forced Placer Mining Services, a Fluor subsidiary, to stop digging at its mine near Nevada City. Homestake, America's largest producer, and Sonora Mining have also felt pressures against their bulldozing and blasting...
...This year's Tiger lightweight eight is a pretty damn tough unit. Last year's Princeton freshman boat was one of the fastest lightweight contingents ever to be assembled at the freshman level in the East. Add to that the departure of Princeton lightweight mentor, Woody Fischer (perennial second-placer to Harvard in his tenure at Old Nassau), and the advancement of last year's freshman coach Guy Kirkpatrick to the varsity level, and the Tigers are sitting pretty...